Nationality Greek 2005–2006 AEL 1964 Weight 98 kg Name Dimitrios Spanoulis Pro career 2001 | Listed weight 215 lb (98 kg) Role Basketball player Siblings Vassilis Spanoulis 2004–2005 Makedonikos Height 1.92 m | |
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Born October 11, 1979 (age 44)
Larissa, Greece ( 1979-10-11 ) 2001–2004 Gymnastikos S. Larissas Nephews Athanasios Spanoulis, Vasileios Spanoulis, Dimitrios Spanoulis Position Point guard, Shooting guard | ||
Listed height 6 ft 3.75 in (1.92 m) | ||
Dimitrios Spanoulis (alternate spelling: Dimitris, Dimitri) (Greek: Δημήτρης Σπανούλης; born October 11, 1979) is a Greek professional basketball player. Born in Larissa, Greece, he is 6 ft 3 ¾ in (1.92 m) in height and he plays at both the point guard and shooting guard positions on the basketball court.
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Professional career
Spanoulis started his career playing with Gymnastikos S. Larissas in the 2001–02 season. He later transferred to several teams including: Makedonikos, Xanthi, MENT, and AEP Olympias.
Spanoulis reached the EuroCup championship game with Makedonikos, during the 2004–05 season. Dimitris led the Greek A2 League in scoring average with Xanthi, during the 2006–07 season, with a scoring average of 27.4 points per game. As a result, he was voted to the Eurobasket.com website's Greek A2 League All-Domestic Team, the League First Team, and he was named the league's Domestic Player of the Year, Guard of the Year, and Player of the Year.
He signed with G.S. Larissas 1928 in 2015, after not playing professional club basketball since 2012.
Personal
Dimitrios is the elder brother of Greek basketball star Vassilis Spanoulis, a long-time member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team, who currently plays with Olympiacos, and formerly played for the NBA's Houston Rockets. Dimitrios competed against Vassilis in the EuroCup competition in the 2004–05 season, when he played for Makdeonikos, and his younger brother, Vassilis, played for Maroussi. In Greek basketball, the two were nicknamed "The Spanoulis Brothers".
He is also the brother-in-law of the Greek super model Olympia Chopsonidou. Spanoulis was offered contracts by several Spanish Second Division teams prior to the 2007–08 season, but he was unable to accept them, as he could not leave Greece at the time. This was due to his mother being in poor health at the time, and he needed to help to attend to her.